The Ten-Year Lunch
The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
56 mins
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Ray Owens
Franklin P. Adams (voice)
Franklin P. Adams
Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Fleischman
Himself (archive footage)
Aviva Slesin
Director
Aviva Slesin
Producer
Aviva Slesin
Executive Producer
Stephen Samuels
Executive Producer
Donna Marino
Editor
Peter Foges
Writer
Mary Jo Kaplan
Writer
Minda Novek
Researcher
Morning Slayter
Sound Mixer
Peter Miller
Sound Recordist
Jill Frank
Associate Producer
Elise Simon Goodman
Associate Producer
Minda Novek
Associate Producer
Jerry Pantzer
Director of Photography
Stuart Math
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Don Lenzer
Director of Photography
Vic Losick
Director of Photography
Peter Hoving
Director of Photography
Paul N. Raimondi
Director of Photography
Judy Karp
Sound Recordist
Robert Maier
Sound Recordist
Morning Slayter
Sound Recordist
Larry Provost
Sound Recordist
Barbara Zahm
Sound Recordist
Fischer White
Animation
Janyce Ferrara
Researcher
Brad Fuller
Sound Editor
Melissa Hacker
Assistant Sound Editor
Terese Nehrbauer
Assistant Sound Editor